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queer_recruit: The wank that found *me*!
Appologies if this has already been posted...

I just got friended by queer_recruit, which I thought was a troll mocking the "cure the gay" Christian types, until I saw how sincere she was. From her userinfo:

I've created this journal to recruit heterosexuals to fall in love with their same-sex friends. Obviously I'm incapable of recruiting you unless you agree to be recruited, but if you do find the idea worth considering, I'm here to answer any questions I can and ask you questions you might not otherwise have considered. For example:
If you've been in love with members of the opposite sex, were you able to achieve as much communication and understanding with them as you've achieved with your closest same-sex friends?

If the mere physical body someone was born with is enough to prevent you from falling in love with them no matter how much better communication and understanding and completely perfectly well-matched minds you have with them than with anyone else in the world, doesn't that make the whole meaning of "falling in love" awfully shallowly physical and emotionally meaningless?
These are some of the questions that led me to convert from heterosexuality to bisexuality 11 years ago.

If you have any objection to being on my friends list, feel free to ask to be removed from it and I will remove you right away. You weren't picked for any particular reason, except that you seemed intelligent and I thought your journal would be interesting to read (and you're welcome to read mine whether or not you sign up to be recruited!).

Lots of wank from both sides in the comments. Highlights:

At least three violations of Godwin's Law

Variations on TBQ's law

Arguing with someone named i_am_a_troll

Wordiness

The massive heterosexual recruitment campaign

Confucianism and Taoism used to defend gender roles

...and Domlijah!

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	phosfate 2004-01-09 07:29 pm UTC (link)
	Good God. How many toaster ovens does she need? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	backfromspace 2004-01-10 12:42 am UTC (link)
	If this works, she'll be like unto a Gawd back at Agenda HQ. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	eljuno 2004-01-09 07:29 pm UTC (link)
	DAMMIT! SHE'S USING MY FAVOURITE GENDER NEUTRAL PRONOUNS!!! Makeherstopmakeherstopmakeherstop! (Reply to this)

smo
2004-01-09 07:46 pm UTC (link)

If you've been in love with members of the opposite sex, were you able to achieve as much communication and understanding with them as you've achieved with your closest same-sex friends?

False dichotomy. I've achieved greater communication and understanding with friends of either gender or orientation than I ever have in my disastrous attempts at dating. Furthermore, I managed to deep-six a five-year friendship (with a guy, for the record) in fifteen minutes by trying to take it to the next level.

Ever since then, I don't fuck my friends. Period. I've had the experience of losing both the friendship and the romance because of introducing the latter into the former, and I don't care to repeat it.

As for "converting" people from one sexual preference to another... don't get me started.

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	chaobell 2004-01-09 08:10 pm UTC (link)
	Hon, it's a sexual orientation, not the goddamned Coast Guard. You're not going to recruit anyone. And fuck you very much for fueling the "look at me! I'm so kewl because I decided to be biSEXual!" stereotype. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	mooncalf 2004-01-09 09:21 pm UTC (link)
	No, no, no, see, joining the Coast Guard is much more serious than switching sexual orientations. Sexual orientation is just a big touch football game, and this girl's intent is to make sure that there are as many skins as shirts! ...someone hand me my tongue decheeker, please. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sagralisse 2004-01-12 06:11 pm UTC (link)
	It's not too late to snerk at that comment, is it? snerk (Reply to this)(Parent)

	tigerlily 2004-01-09 08:47 pm UTC (link)
	Good grief! Eys a Jahovahs witness of sex! -runs away- (Reply to this)

	deoridhe 2004-01-09 10:30 pm UTC (link)
	But... now that I've read all of her compelling arguments I've realized that I've been stalking Smo-chan because I long to make the beast with two backs with her and embrace my bi-sexuality. And without queer_recruit, I never would have cast off my chains of heterosexuality! (Reply to this)(Thread)

	smo 2004-01-09 10:34 pm UTC (link)
	Why, Deo-chan, I didn't know you cared! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	*running through a field, soliloquising* deoridhe 2004-01-10 01:10 am UTC (link)
	sniffs I've ...fought it for too long, Smo-chan! But now I know, I can never live without you again! Please, oh please will you be mine? For without your verdant touch, my heart will never know the sweet songs of robins on a spring morn, nor know the healing water of your tears! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: running through a field, soliloquising smo 2004-01-10 06:19 pm UTC (link)
	swoon Thy sweet words have won my blushing maiden heart! Come to my arms, my only love! insert hot girlsex here (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: running through a field, soliloquising deoridhe 2004-01-10 07:31 pm UTC (link)
	with the beast with two backs to make ...whoever really liked that happy 8) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: running through a field, soliloquising deoridhe 2004-01-10 07:31 pm UTC (link)
	points down Rann. Right. 8) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	rann 2004-01-10 01:01 am UTC (link)
	You know, I always find it especially hot when lesbians actually make the beast with two backs, rather than say the beasts fingering each other's crotches while attempting to look pleasured. ^.^ (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	CatherinexRelena deoridhe 2004-01-10 01:11 am UTC (link)
	I'll keep that in mind for my CatherinexRelena fic. ^-^ (Reply to this)(Parent)

	alisalias 2004-01-10 07:29 am UTC (link)
	I'm a girl and my closest friends are guys. Does this mean I should stay heterosexual? (Reply to this)

	mydemand 2004-01-10 03:57 pm UTC (link)
	hahahah! I love this person's imagination, at least. Actually, I tend to tell my friends with relationship problems "guys suck, date girls instead." friends this person (Reply to this)(Thread)

	mydemand 2004-01-10 04:03 pm UTC (link)
	err, then again, the "you are obviously not intelligent" comments put me off. :P I have a friend who is super-openminded and she says she would love to be gay but she loves men way too much. So that poster initially reminded me of her. But my friend isn't going to go out and recruit people - I'm probably more likely to try to recruit HER, ahahaha. (Reply to this)(Parent)